SOCCER: The pressure on Huddersfield boss Mick Wadsworth is growing after a dreadful run of results has seen the Terriers slip into the relegation zone.

SOCCER: The pressure on Huddersfield boss Mick Wadsworth is growing after a dreadful run of results has seen the Terriers slip into the relegation zone.

The Yorkshire side are bottom of the current Division Two form table with just two points from their last six games and no wins in eight.

Midfielder Chris Holland will be sidelined for five weeks after undergoing surgery to cure a long-standing groin problem.

The 26-year-old has missed only two matches all season and his all-action style will be sorely missed in the Terriers' engine room. But the lack of FA Cup action at the weekend may give a number of players the time to recover for this weekend's clash with Stockport.

Midfielder Danny Schofield (hamstring) and goalkeeper Scott Bevan (groin) should both be fit.

Striker Andy Booth, out since September with a hamstring problem, and defender Gareth Evans, who has not played this season because of a serious knee injury, both played in the reserves 2-0 home defeat by Barnsley.

Wadsworth has completed the loan signing of 30-year-old Wigan striker Lee Ashcroft and expects to pair the former England youth striker with Booth this Saturday.

Form: LLDLLD. No wins in eight and just four all season. Last win in any competition was 2-0 at Mansfield - the only team below them in the table - on October 19. Things don't look like getting any easier with Wigan and Cardiff to play in December. Consistent performers: Canadian defender Kevin Sharp and on-loan keeper Scott Bevan have played in all 24 games. Goals scored: Just 15 league goals. Goals conceded: 24 - but Bevan has kept seven clean sheets.

It's a fact: Denis Law made his league debut for Huddersfield aged just 16 years, 303 days on Christmas Eve, 1956.